“AT&T will lose its exclusive agreement to sell the iPhone sometime next year and Verizon has been the leading candidate to take on the popular Apple phone next, but Thomas Weisel analyst Doug Reid disputes that assumption,” Moritz reports. “Verizon originally rejected Apple’s exclusivity offer three years ago over control issues. And instead of trying to mend its relations with Apple, Verizon has spent the past year forging a rival partnership with Google to counter the iPhone offensive.”
“But while Verizon has publicly said it remains interested in a deal with Apple, Reid suspects it won’t involve the current generation of iPhones,” Moritz reports. “What’s more likely, Reid says, is that Verizon makes a deal to sell other Apple devices like the elusive Apple Tablet and the next version of the iPhone running on long term evolution or LTE, a fourth generation wireless technology.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “James W.” for the heads up.]
Road to smartphone dominance w/ T-Mobile? LMAO!
Good luck… Deutsch Telecom has T-Mobile USA up for sale… The second tier carriers (T-Mobile & Sprint) are losing subscribers & becoming more & more irrelevant.
The major battle, and where the subscribers are, is between Verizon and AT&T;.
Putting it on T-Mobile gets Apple nothing. T-Mobile also has non-standard spectrum for 3G (I think the uplink is 1700 MHz & the downlink is 2100 MHz – yeech!)
Verizon will be one of the first carriers in the world to launch a 4G LTE network.. meanwhile, according to AT&T;’s own public statements, they won’t have 3G fully built out until 2012… at that point, why bother?
@Gregg Thurman
“Exactly spot on. All those praising Verizon’s network would be howling like stuck pigs if suddenly Verizon had 10X the demand placed on its data network. CDMA can’t do simultaneous, PERIOD, and Verizon bandwidth is significantly lower than ATT’s.”
Are you showing the world your complete & total wireless ignorance again?
AT&T;’s 3G Network has slow data connections EXACTLY b/c it carries circuit-swithced voice & data on the same RF carrier. During busy hours, data users are either bumped down to pokey old EDGE, or suffer terribly slow data speeds… this has shown up in the test results from PC World magazine..
Plus, w/ UMTS, you have to suffer w/ the inefficiencies in the GPRS backbone network too… Talk about an antique!
CDMA EV/DO uses Mobile IP straight from the handset right into the PDSN in the network… it is built totally on IP standards… NOT some byzantine antique like the GPRS core network that Ericsson & Nokia pushed on the carriers as a way to try to keep Cisco out of their networking business.
Gregg Thurman – STFU!
LTE is NOT compatible w/ GSM.. LTE (and UMTS for that matter) ARE CDMA!
They are just an overlay over old TDMA-based GSM networks, to help migrate them to CDMA…
Are you an imbecile?
If you’d remember the first iPhone (which did not have 3G because the networks were not mature enough) you wouldn’t expect an LTE iPhone in 2010 or 2011, no matter what Verizon is promising. A CDMA iPhone however has become more likely with the release of a custom Wifi-less iPhone for China Unicom this year. If Verizon or even Sprint pre-order 10 million CDMA iPhones from Apple, they would make it happen.